Plenty of vision circulating. Shouldn't be too hard to identify them & stand them down.
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Did I do that?
Nice straw man/diversion but not convincing at all.
The post was about how Murdoch will just use any situation to have a go at Andrews, we've seen the bias in the different treatment of Gladys in the Terrorgraph compared to the treatment of Dan in the Hun. It's bleedingly obvious unless you have an inability to see anything except in black and white, some of us can see nuances.
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Dont know honestly. Bit i do know the hospital (sry for privacy will never name it) had sent staff at times to support when staff at other hospitals had to isolate. Like anything they do run budgets, they can build new wards, more beds but in the end it needs more staff.
In the past wards have been shut for awhile re staff shortages ( ages ago - unsure now)
He was just providing basic info how he felt. He was able to cope last yr fwiw, but said just starting to get to him. He's ver resilient. I know he does massive shifts. Works in 2 hospitals metro but believe stop going to a country one.
Always just send him text initially if home. Then call when available.
Sry just providing basic info but dont know the indepth stuff. I dont ask & not my place to ask tbh.
Think "independent" is the distinguishing feature there Ian. From that I infer that they have their faculties, and each other, and so a good chance to cope with and understand restrictions and thus they can ride this out and look forward to many more happy years.
Those in a care settings are already on borrowed time, frail, cognition can be compromised even without dementia, and they are living alone. They might be "safe" but they don't necessarily feel that.
As aged care resident rates are over 90% and staff have met their obligations and if a visitor is double vaxed, masks, even PPE worn what more can be done before restrictions are eased? if not now when?
Seriously? You're pulling that one? You think that's acceptable behaviour do you? Let's all just create a mob and go beserk and cause mayhem at every law and rule and regulation we don't like. You think it's okay that they are priviliged to be continue working and have no liability for their actions when hundreds of thousands can't earn an income? They have a right to spread the virus and endanger public health do they?
No idea where the $1.3 billion came from. It was hundreds of million $.
Believe me it wasn’t easy getting equipment last year, there was a massive shortage of ICU equipment all over the world for obvious reasons. It wasn’t just about equipment, spaces had to be converted to be ICU ( for isolation, proper ventilation etc) and that cost lots and was also enormously challenging.
ICU staff can’t just be created, they have to be trained. There are lots of doctors and nurses who have some training in critical care and they will be the first ones used and already are but they need to get redeployed which means something else stops. We have a finite resource and the lack of foreign staff coming has made it worse added to extra staff requirements in other areas associated with the pandemic.
Never said it was wasted just that it was incredibly challenging. Anybody who thinks it is easy is living in a fantasy world.
I like how 2 guys are fighting, no one really cares.
1 guy kicks a dog and everyone turns on them.
Haha
I've said before but my wife works for a company in the building industry and all the construction workers there are looney tunes, believing all the anti covid conspiracy theories on the internet, with the company owner leading the charge.
And the major cost is salaries, especially in a country like Australia. I read in the US now they are just throwing new nursing grads into ICUs and Covid care wards, not enough experienced staff and many have quit. It normally takes years for a nurse to be seasoned enough to work effectively in an ICU environment.
I can tell you why some are resigning
They are exhausted already and they see a massive mountain in front of them. They are tired of working in PPE all day, of getting a rash on their face from a tight mask hours on end, from working extra shifts because staff have been furloughed and from the relentlessness of COVID cases and then when that stops catching up with surgical and other care backlog and then starting COVID again. Many staff who have been furloughed because of a COVID case have gone into hotel quarantine so as to not infect their families.
I can also tell you that in a few public hospitals that I am aware of the double vaccination rate of critical care staff, which would include ICU, is over 99%. Those not vaccinated are not working in areas they can infect or be infected.
They are tired, including being tired of people being flippant and undervaluing what they are going through.
Anyone who thinks it is too dangerous has left already.
Looking that way.... hopefully everyone can take a deep breath. Without any data I think whenever there is an "announcement" the heat in the kitchen rises and then when all the pro and antis have had their say, the general mood becomes more benign. GF should be a distraction for this week.
"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt".
Our public hospital system is not built to handle all these extra cases without something being taken away to compensate for it. if it were then everyone would be complaining about how much it cost. The system in normal times works with very thin margins of increases and decreases of activity, most beds are full 100% of the time and an activity increase of 5% can send the system into problems. That's the way public health is funded, barely enough resources to meet demand and some would say never enough.
When COVID stopped in the last 15-18 months at times a few things happened. One was there was a massive increase in people taking backlog leave, there was also a big backlog of surgery that was cancelled during lockdowns which has to be caught up and there were large numbers of outpatient and other appointments that had to be caught up.
I'm sort of finished trying to explain because it all seems so easy to some and to be honest I can't really be bothered anymore.
Yep. Imagine having to work double shifts, no leave, for months and months, wearing full PPE - that's not just wearing a mask folks - having to take it off and replace it if you have to go to the toilet, worrying about passing a dose on to your family. And knowing it could get much worse over the next few months.
And dealing with idiots saying it's a hoax and "where's my ivermectin", hostile families, etc. On the latter it's much worse in the states of course - people are literally dying there and families are claiming "you are intubating him to kill him, because you are part of Biden and Fauci's big scam". *smile*..... Nurses and doctors always try to be compassionate but it would be a stretch dealing with these ungrateful idiots day in and day out.
Hahahahaha typical.
Misleading and out of context. And not look at what i said by fly that angle that has no relevance.
Where the f$@$k did i say that u idiot. Seriously pathetic post. But its okay u got yr ticks.
Show me where u fool ive said protest are good..moronic approach by yrself.
In fact u r preaching thus the reason i said go down there to find out what tjey r saying. Fly yr flag champ. U dont respect the choice in vax. We disagree
